qcumba

qcumba has 3 years experience.

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1. Coping with death

   qcumba replied to Emilyallen's topic in Pediatric

   Hi NICU nurse here, sorry if I'm invading your forum... We recently had a very sad loss in my unit, one of our micro's, a former 25wkr, 820g at birth we fought really hard along side him and his parents to get him to discharge -his initial stay with ...

2. Gastroschisis

   qcumba replied to qcumba's topic in NICU

   Hi there, Just dropped by to let you know how our little guy is doing, he is still npo, on tpn and went for his secondary closure last week the surgeon says all he bowels looked good, no necrosis or any thing, so for he is doing well, no complicatio...

3. Gastroschisis

   qcumba replied to qcumba's topic in NICU

   Hi there, thank you Averysangels, will be in contact if I have any more questions, sory that I have been quiet, have been off from work with flu for the last few days, so am a bit out of the loop as to what is happening back at work, but when I left ...

4. Gastroschisis

   qcumba replied to qcumba's topic in NICU

   Thank you prmenrs, for that referance and I will do a more specific search as well,I will definately be back I'm sure, asking questions is kinda my thing. And I will try and keep you updated on how our little guy is doing Thank you again to all of yo...

5. Gastroschisis

   qcumba replied to qcumba's topic in NICU

   thank you for all your replies and advice, I had a giggle at the tact and the emphasis on conveying said advice with respect :) us South African's have very thick skins and dont get offended easily,so none taken, I just appreciate the insight you can...

6. Gastroschisis

   qcumba posted a topic in NICU

   Hi, I was just wondering if those of you in bigger units have seen this condition before? we are due to be admitting a baby this week with suspected gastroschisis or omphalocele, it will be the first time we will be having a child with either of thes...

7. How do you measure temperatures?

   qcumba replied to EMSnut45's topic in MICU

   We use axillary temps on most of our patients, Bladder temps on our open hearts and our very untstable pyrexial patients get rectal temp probes which connect to our monitors

8. Intubation and Sedation

   qcumba replied to shannonFNP's topic in Emergency

   Hi,yes I tend to agree,I don't really think it's the best option either,sometimes we have to use huge doses to get the patient out enough to intubate,that we end up with a patient with no blood pressure, very often they don't have much of a bp to sta...

9. Intubation and Sedation

   qcumba replied to shannonFNP's topic in Emergency

   Ok I seeI have caused some debate, let me clarify what I mean't, We use a stat dose of 10-15mg midazolam,intubateand then once the patient is intubated and ET is secured, position checked etc we commence morphine and midazolam infusions titrated to e...

10. Intubation and Sedation

    qcumba replied to shannonFNP's topic in Emergency

    Reading through all these replies, it seems that we are the only unit who uses Midazolam/Dormicum, for intubations,and then dormicum and morphine post intubation for sedation, is there anyone else who does this?

11. What HAVE you said to patients???

    qcumba replied to jessi1106's topic in General Nursing

    To a 9 year old brat, post cardiac surgery, after a long night of being ordered to lift/ lower the head of the bed, fetch that, bring this,refusing her oral meds and being a general PITA..eventually just prior to shift change, while I am busy getting...

12. Hi from South Africa

    qcumba replied to helpthehelpless's topic in General World

    Hi from a fellow south African :) Good luck with the rest of your studies :)

13. B.Bruan Space pumps

    qcumba replied to qcumba's topic in General Nursing

    Thank guy's for all your input,sounds likethe manufacturing of air out of nowhere is a common problem with these pumps then, at present we are using the Baxter pumps,the colleague I think, and they are soooo heavy and you can only run 3 infusions thr...

14. B.Bruan Space pumps

    qcumba posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi, we ar trying out these B.Bruan SPACE pumps, and I was wondering if anyone else out there has used them and what their thoughts are, firsthand they seem great,but we have only just started the trial so haven't had a chance to find fault yet. What...

15. Is turning to supine considered a turn?

    qcumba replied to sockov's topic in MICU

    To be honest, I actually am not sure why we don't leave our pt's on thier sides after rubbing them, we do it with our baby's and kids but not the adult's - our unit is mixed we get all age's. I think we're just scared of the risk of extubating the pa...